Windows 10: Windows 10 Creators Update and Surface Studio

And now we're gonna get affordable "Hololens's" yoohoo*Party

 

What a sensational good looking device! Kudo's for MS!

Cheers

 

I was just thinking about how nice the Surface Studio is and looks, and it came to me...
You can't add any extra disks internally to it*Sad
I use Hyper-V VMs and they can get quite large, specially when you have a lot of checkpoints, before eventually deleting the subtrees and merging.
I use SSDs for my VMs, meaning I need extra SATA 3 @ 6Gb/s or NVMe's.
So the Surface Studio is definitely for Creators, but not Geeks*Tongue

One exception would be, if you have enough money and can afford AZURE, and have you machines there...

 

Cliff a lot of creative's will work in design studios, this sort of place is likely to have Many Terabytes of accessible fast remote storage - and I know of photographers who carry several terabytes of storage to a site (including Mirrored Raid secure backups) to augment their reasonably specified laptop

So the hardware is exotic, but the basic 3D software (Paint D) is aimed at the normal users that wants to add a little 3D magic to their wallpapers, facebook posts etc - I'm sure you'll find a valid reason to add 3d objects from Paint to your other projects *Biggrin *Wink

 

Nigel, it was only the hardware I was talking about, and use for virtual machines.*Smile
My VMs are on a 2nd internal 1 TB SSD and boot just as fast(if not faster) than the host(also on SSD, just more software & services running).



Everything else about the Surface Studio is AWESOME!

 

Like Barman said, in companies they'll likely use network drives, backed up to tape and kept off-site for disaster recovery.

Surface Studio is aimed first and foremost as an art device like Wacom Cintiq's, so Virtual Machines aren't much of a priority, however I expect Microsoft could find a way to fit two M.2 slots in there if there was a call for them to do so and Samsung are already pushing 2TB M.2 960 PRO's. Here's an Intel NUC Skull Canyon (which is also small) with two M.2 drives fitted on the left-hand side.





(Image courtesy of NewEgg)

 

A few behind the scenes pics/details of the Surface Studio video at the following link:

Microsoft Used a Robot and an Xbox Controller to Shoot a Commercial

 

There is a model that comes with am i7 and 32GB of RAM and 2TB of "Rapid Hybrid Drive", which nobody is quite sure what it is. The pictures look like an m.2 PCIe SSD. Of course it costs $4k, but it's a sleek unit.

You could always use USB storage to keep your VM's that you're not currently using, and swap them in to the main storage when you want them.

 

I have one of these, with 2 512GB Samsung 950's... it does scream. Also 32GB of DDR4

 

Nice. Pretty awesome little unit for it's size.

 

A review from a YouTube "site" I trust:
(all I can say is: OUCH! and thanks for the warning)
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